Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 15:07:55 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6.1: kern.ipc.maxpipekva Message-ID: <20060617200755.GG74191@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20060617165626.V1114@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20060617164334.K1114@ganymede.hub.org> <20060617165626.V1114@ganymede.hub.org>
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In the last episode (Jun 17), Marc G. Fournier said: > On Sat, 17 Jun 2006, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > >Jun 17 16:00:03 pluto kernel: kern.ipc.maxpipekva exceeded; see tuning(7) > >Jun 17 16:00:04 pluto kernel: kern.ipc.maxpipekva exceeded; see tuning(7) > > > >but I can't seem to find anything in tuning(7) about it ... so, what > >is it and how do I monitor for it? > > More on this: > > # sysctl -a | grep pipekva > kern.ipc.maxpipekva: 16777216 > kern.ipc.pipekva: 15122432 > > and I just rebooted the server ... > > so obviously I've been living on the edge ... not sure what to increase it > to, since not sure what it affects, so will wait on responses ... Try also running "sysctl kern.ipc | grep pipe", which will also tell you how many pipes are in use, plus some other counters. The comment at the top of sys/kern/sys_pipe.c explains how pipes are given memory. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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